Button-sewing machine



E. SISSON.

BUTTON SEWING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 12. I920.

1,375,235., Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

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BUTTON-SEWING MACHINE.

made of flexible sheet-material; and it re-- lates more particuiarl to machines for stitching buttons to s irts or other garments.

The principal object of the invention is to facilitate the proper spacing-apart of the buttonsv as the are attached to the garment or other artic e. a I ()ther objects will appear in connectlon with the following descrlption.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top plan view of the bed-plate or worklate of a with the improved gage.

l ig 9 is a vertical cross-section of the same taken on the broken line'2'-2 in Fig. 1, also showing the needle and the work...

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1- is the bed-plate or work-plate of an ordinary button-sewing machine havin the usual button-holding chuck, 2, an the usual stitching mechanism for stitching the huttons to shirts or the like.

For the purpose of my invention, the stitching mechanism may be of any known form, and l have therefore not shown the same in detail, but have merely shown the needle, 3, thereof, which is operated to stitch to a shirt-front, t, or the like, a button, 5, held by the chuck, 2, all in the usual manner, At one side of the button-chuck and stitching mechanism I mount upon the bed-plate 1, or other suitable support, my improved gage, 8, which is provided witha depression or opening, 7, which opening 1s adapted to receive a depressed portion, t

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

Application filed April 12, 1920. Serial No. 378,450.

of the shirt front, 4, together with a button, 5, previously attached thereto, as shown in %he gage is formed with a slot, 8, and

is adjustably secured to the bed-plate, 1, by

ing mechanism corresponding to the desired distance from one button to a neighboring button on the front, 4, of the shirt.

In the operation of the device, the first of a series of buttons, as the button, 5, is first stitched upon the garment at the desired point. The operator then grasps this stitched-on button and the neighboring portion of the garment and slides the garment in the directlon of the gage until the button, 5% and the immediate portion of the garment to which said button is attached are brought into line with and depressed within the opening, as shown in Fig. 2, in which position they are held depressed by one and of the operator while the garment is I stretched by the other hand of the operator beneath the button-chuck, and is so held while another button, 5, inserted in the chuck is stitched to the garment.

The operation is then repeated by movin the garment and depressing the last-attache button, 5, and the immediate portion of the garment within the opening in the gage.

The successive buttons will thus be accurately spaced apart, each previously attached button being thus caused to cooperate with the gage in determining the proper position for the button to be next attached.

Much difficulty has been found in accurately gaging the distance apart of machine-attached buttons due to the fact that the bed-plate at a point where a gage might be conveniently used is covered by the garment or other work.

My improved gage is therefore particularly adapted for the intended purpose because in its use it is not necessary for the operator to see the gage, but merely by the sense f eeling to locate the opening, 7, and

then depress into the opening the previously attached button with the immediate portion of the garment adjacent thereto.

The form and size of the opening, 7, may be varied to adapt the gage for use with work. having buttons of different forms and slzes. o

It is not necessary that the, opening, 7, should extend entirely through the plate forming the gage, but by having a perforate opening the opening can be readlly freed from accumulations of lintor dirt.

I have shown and described the invention in its preferred use for sewing buttons to shirts, but it will be apparent that it can be employed for attaching'buttons to flexible sheets of various kinds.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a button-attaching machine, the combination with button-attaching mechanism; of a gage provided with an opening with an upwardly facing mouthadapted to at a distance from the button-attaching mechanism corresponding to the desired distance from one button to a neighboring button on said sheet. a

2. In a button-sewin machine, the combination with stitchorming mechanism, and a button-holding chuck; of a gage provided with an upwardly flaring opening adapted to receive both a depressed portion of a flexible sheet and a button attached thereto, said gag being so located that said opening is at a distance'from the buttonchuck corresponding to the desired distance from one button to a neighboring button on said sheet.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 

